Ted Hearn is Managing Editor for Broadband Breakfast. He is also Editor and Publisher of Policyband, a website dedicated to comprehensive coverage of the broadband communications market.
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State officials did not identify the ISPs that walked away as the Nebraska Broadband Office now attempts to find new service providers to connect nearly 1,700 locations
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'Illinois consumers have been nickel-and-dimed out of thousands of dollars per year by unnecessary and deceptive junk fees,' Pritzker said in a statement announcing his support for the bill
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NTIA Administrator Arielle Roth’s team calls out Gov. Tony Evers (D) for saying Tuesday that BEAD left 30,000 Wisconsin locations unserved
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Locking arms with six state cable trade associations, the satellite TV operator says Scripps would reach 40.29% of U.S. TV households, even after applying the UHF discount
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Newsmax and a group of state cable associations said the D.C. Circuit should give the FCC no more than 14 days to vote on the Media Bureau’s March 19 approval of the Nexstar-TEGNA merger
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Carr Supports Jamming, But Industry Opposition Led by AT&T, Verizon, and CTIA Has Been Intense, Arguing the Agency Lacked Legal Authority to Give State Prisons the Jamming Option
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Starlink's parent said 'the long-standing problem of high-speed broadband network access has effectively been solved, rendering most legacy High-Cost support mechanisms redundant'
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Meanwhile. New Street Research says rapidly growing Starlink doubled its global subscriber base in 2025, hitting 2.7 million U.S. customers and becoming a Top 10 ISP
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BEAD projects are expected to involve 3.9 million utility‑owned poles, researchers Alex Karras and Michael Santorelli of the Advanced Communications Law & Policy Institute say
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Agency tells D.C. Circuit the deal is under 'active consideration,' but wants the ‘typically deferential approach toward the management of its own limited resources’
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Shentel and TDS stand apart from the carnage, likely because their bold pivot to fiber keeps yielding net subscriber additions
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The Biden FCC’s hard pivot left on Net Neutrality and Digital Discrimination lost in federal court, and FCC Chairman Brendan Carr dismantled Rosenworcel’s ‘homework gap’ overreach with USF money
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Court took 588 days from oral arguments to deliver another major judicial setback for Biden-era communications policies embraced by FCC Democrats Jessica Rosenworcel, Anna Gomez, and Geoffrey Starks
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The 90-day promotion appears aimed at attracting new customers who have hesitated over upfront costs
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'Their argument has the musty smell of 1985,' Forbes says in an Op-Ed posted Monday on Fox News' website
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On earnings calls, analysts are starting to use up their limited quota of questions to ask CEOs if they are feeling any heat from Elon Musk's Low Earth Orbit (LEO) satellite constellation.
